Pharma Pulse 3/20/25: Coverage from Access USA 2024, Overdose Death Leads to Suit Against Pharmacies & more

Access USA 2025: Spreading Awareness of Medicare Part D Reforms

Informa’s Access USA conference from Philadelphia continued with its first panel discussion of the conference. Amy Niles, chief mission officer of the PAN Foundation—a national charitable foundation and healthcare advocacy group—was joined by Bill Allen, a patient and family advisory council member with PAN Foundation; Susan Neff, aging services supervisor and SHIP/MIPPA with the Pennsylvania Department of Aging; and Dan Sherman, founder and president of the NaVectis Group, and a financial navigator for Lacks Cancer Care.

Overdose Death Leads to Suit Against Pharmacies

Appellate court addresses application of legal doctrine to the matter.

Purdue Pharma Files New Chapter 11 Plan in Bankruptcy Case

Purdue Pharma LP has filed a new Chapter 11 plan with the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, pledging it will give creditors including US states and other parties more than $7.4 billion of cash to compensate victims of the opioid crisis.

Bamboo Health and the State of Ohio Partner to Reduce Fatal Drug Overdoses

In an effort to reduce deaths from drug overdoses, Bamboo Health™ is partnering with the State of Ohio to strengthen its prescription drug monitoring system, called the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System, by adding a feature that alerts healthcare providers if a patient has a prior history of drug overdoses directly in their existing workflows.

CoverMyMeds on LinkedIn

In this video interview with Pharmaceutical Executive, Kimberley Chiang, VP of biopharma commercial solutions, reveals that only 3% of patients utilize support programs due to a lack of awareness.

What’s causing the gap? Her conversation dives deep into key learnings from our 2025 Medication Access Report, highlighting the existing fragmentation across the industry and underscoring the need for better interoperability to help streamline data, so patients can get on – and stay on – the medications they need.

Watch the full conversation here: https://bit.ly/4iyK4R1.

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